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Thomas Godfrey, esquire. Godfrey Thomas King. Godfrey requests that the Chancellor...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/113/5642

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Reference
SC 8/113/5642
Date
[c. 1406]
Description
Petitioners
Thomas Godfrey, esquire.
Name(s)
Godfrey, Thomas
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Godfrey requests that the Chancellor be ordered to direct a commission to Erpingham, Cheyne, Beauchamp and Arnold to seize all the lands that were Stanlake's and which, following a commission finding that Stanlake was an idiot, were occupied by Mareys for 37 years and is held to answer for £2,000, and that this will be to the king's profit and that of John his son who has in his keeping the idiot and a grange called Carswell, and which grange he will lose if he doesn't have the king's aid.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Gloucester Castle, [Gloucestershire]
Cressewell (Carswall) Grange, [Gloucestershire].
People mentioned
William Wykham (Wykeham), Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor
Roger Stanlake
John Mareys
Thomas Erpyngham (Erpingham), knight of the king's council
John Cheyne, knight of the king's council
William Beauchamp, Constable of the castle of Gloucester
John Arnold, Serjeant-at-Arms
John [of Lancaster], son of Henry IV.
Note
The petition dates to c. 1406 if the commission to arrest Godfrey and Mareys is connected with the petition (CPR 1405-8, p.156).
Related material

For another version of this petition see SC 8/113/5647

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3768
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. XIII, 1364-1367, (Public Record Office, 1913), p.202 (commission to investigate idiocy of Roger Stanlake)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. III, 1405-1408, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.156 (commission to arrest the petitioner and Mareys and bring them before the king and council at all speed)
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